The Tiger's Appetite

By Sahana Navaneetha

Once lived a tiger walking under god's will

Suddenly he made a pot of gold spill!

"Run away run away" Rushed the village parade

"Run away you tiger and never come here again!

The tiger rushed his way through the bushes

Encountered a bird with feathers of gold

The bird saw the whimpering tiger and said-

'’Tell me, what pain your heart holds.'’

"I am blind, the darkness I see-

It is so cold and full of treachery!"

No one fears my roar for, they know I'm that tiger

Knitted like a tree and one that is so weak.

"Oh poor tiger" cried the gentle bird

"Let me quench your thirst

Will you allow me or

Will you make the request first?"

"One faithful eye, just one so I can see

This beautiful world which was hidden from me.

With one ball of sight, the tiger then left

He was no longer blind and no longer in regret.

Around the forest,

paraded a king and men of his kind.

To shoot arrows and traps that they call

“victory of the wise”

One such unpitying man,

Set the aim to a free in the breeze

And what happened next?!

The tiger's seat of vision was a sphere of inking blood!

Alas! The tiger has now come to his end

In his whole life, perhaps the first thing he saw

was the sight of cruel death.

The first thing he saw. It was a cruel death!

By Sahana Navaneetha